Pretty kewl. Laptop magazine selected us as one of their best mobile start ups of 2010. Not a bad way to start off the day!
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Laptop magazine declares waze one of the best mobile startups of 2010
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Waze to speak at TechCrunch Mobile 2010 in Barcelona + more…
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Come the third week of February each year, the city of Barcelona is transformed by the Mobile World Congress into an international hive of the mobile industry’s who’s who, so of course we’re looking forward to hopping over there to make our peers aware of waze, and all we have to offer.
If you’ll be attending the congress, make sure to mosey on by our space in the Smaato booth and say hello! We’ll be in Hall 7, the ‘Apps Hall’, in booth 7C38.
Other places you can check us out are at the Mobile Premiere Awards, on February 15. We’re up for the ‘Mobile Monday Innovator of the Year’ award and Noam, our CEO, is gonna rock his 3 minute presentation. That’s not to say that the competition isn’t super stiff – ‘cause it is. We’re looking forward to sharing the stage with all kindsa cool apps, from augmented reality startups, Layar, to LBS apps, like Aloqa. You can check out all the finalists here and can purchase tickets for the event here.
Additionally, you can find us at the TechCrunch mobile 2010 meet up, an interactive and live-video-streamed session featuring some of the most innovative and interesting mobile startups and investors in Europe, on February 17. Tickets to the event can be purchased here. Noam will be presenting at 2:50pm on the topic of “Using mobile apps to crowdsource data into a service.” Should be a good one.
And last, and by no means least, we’re working to organize a meet up with our area managers and users in the Barcelona area. Stay tuned to @waze_es for information about where and when we plan to gather folks. It’s gonna be a real good time! 
Waze annouces partnership with Location World, a leading South American location services provider
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Big news on the international front – we’ve just partnered with Location World, the largest location-based services and solutions company in South America, based in Ecuador, with a strong, fast growing presence in additional Latin American countries including Panama, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Columbia and Chile.
What does this mean for our users in those locations? Well, Location World is providing us with some great base maps and this means that community growth will be significantly accelerated so that users can get waze’s free turn-by-turn navigation and real time traffic information from day one, rather than waiting until the countries are first mapped. We’ve rolled out the base maps in Ecuador already (http://www.ec.waze.com), and the surrounding countries will soon follow.
We expect community growth in this region to accelerate very quickly, and we’re sending out a warm welcome to all of you who are about to join the world’s largest global driving community – we’re glad to have you on board!
Waze now available internationally – put your country on the map!
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
In our humble attempt to take over the world one traffic lane at a time, waze is proud to announce today that we’ve gone global! Wazers from all around the world are now able to use our platform to build crowdsourced maps, 100% from scratch. In fact, in certain countries with no base map, users will literally be building maps from scratch – paving the roads entirely themselves, as they drive…
Already, driving communities have organically formed in over 20 countries around the globe, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, and Trinidad Tobago – and people have even begun map editing their regions online at world.waze.com.
The funny part is that even before we opened up the platform for international use, we’d see wazers in clusters on the map in areas with no waze support, self-organizing to check out what we have to offer. In fact, in Singapore, the highway grid was mapped in just a few days by a handful of active users! We thought it was a pretty amazing thing to see, so we decided to formally open waze to users, worldwide, so everyone can enjoy crowdsourced maps and, eventually, free navigation, turn-by-turn directions + an improved daily commute.
Help us spread the word to your friends in far away places – the more wazers on the road, the more everyone benefits!
Announcing ‘You can go your own waze,’ the new waze user blog – by users, for users
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Since every other part of our product is user-generated, we wondered what would happen if we created a blog giving users a voice to share their thoughts on, and experiences with, waze, and thus ‘You can go your own Waze’ (apologies to Fleetwood Mac…) was born.
We’re looking for users to share their experiences – this can be anything from a video showing you using the app out there on the road, to short postings sharing tips, how-to posts, pictures or fun lists. Additionally, we’d be happy to see your posts on topics tangentially related to waze – cars, driving, traffic, maps, relevant technology, etc.
We’re really excited to see how it’ll take shape and we invite you all to join in – be it as bloggers or as regular readers and commentors. Also, if you’d like to start contributing yourself but don’t yet have permissions to do so, just drop a quick email request to alli@waze.com and we’ll be happy hook you up.
Let’s do this thing!
DEMOfall annoucement: Waze is now available on most smartphones including Windows Mobile, Symbian, Iphone and Android
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Our CEO, Noam Bardin, will demo waze today at the DEMO fall conference. DEMO is one of the most central events in the consumer tech space. The format of the conference is great. Here’s how they describe it:
Each company is given just six minutes on the DEMO stage to truly demonstrate how their product will change the world. No PowerPoint or flashy corporate presentations allowed. Just the founders and the technologies many are staking their careers on… it doesn’t get any more straightforward and fast paced than that.
At DEMO, we’ll announce the multiplatform availability of waze! As of today most smartphone users can download waze to their phones and join in on the building of the world’s first free driver generated live map, real time road info, and turn by turn navigation service. We are working on more and hope to support Blackberry soon.
Waze now available on iPhone!
Thursday, August 6th, 2009We’re really excited to announce that waze is now available as a free download on the iPhone Appstore! Find us on the Appstore by looking under the ‘Navigation’ category or by searching ‘waze’. 
Leave a Review, and Tell a Friend!
If you’re an iPhone user, go ahead and download waze – we hope you’ll like the app and help out with positive reviews. If you’re not an iPhone user but have friends with one, we’d appreciate your help in spreading the word. Drop a quick line to your friends with iPhones to give them a heads up about waze.
Getting Better all the Time
Remember, the more people who open the application on their daily commute, the better waze’s map information and driving directions will get, and we hope with the addition of iPhone users, driving communities across the nation will experience a nice little boom. We’ll keep you posted…
Waze Across America Contest
And one last thing – iPhone users can now participate in our ‘waze across America contest’, for their chance to win their choice of an iPhone 3Gs or myTouch 3G. All you have to do to participate is download waze and send a road report. Once your state gets to 100 unique road reports, we’ll pick one winner, at random, to pick their new phone. Click here for further contest details.
Waze available on Android Market today!
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
We’re happy to announce that waze is now publically available as a free download on the Android Market website, as of today. For those of you who already have the application from our alpha phase, make sure to download waze again via the Android Market to take advantage of automatic version updates. Also, if you’re already a happy user, re-downloading waze will allow you to leave a positive review of the app for all the world to see!
We’re excited to offer waze to the Android community, and for those of you with other kinds of smartphones, stay tuned to the blog to find out about when your device will be waze-ready…
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